Microdota Mulsant & Rey, 1873

Lee, Seung-Gyu & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2015, A taxonomic review of Korean species of the AthetaThomsonsubgenusMicrodota Mulsant & Rey, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 502, pp. 61-97 : 62-63

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Subgenus Microdota Mulsant & Rey, 1873

Microdota See Smetana (2004) for detailed synonymy.

Diagnosis.

Members of Microdota can be distinguished from other subgenera of Atheta by combination of the following characters: body small, parallel-sided; antennomere 2 distinctly longer than 3, 5-10 transverse; median region of prementum very narrow, without pseudopore; pronotum transverse, more than 1.2 times as wide as long, with midline of pubescence directed anteriorly in most; hypomera fully visible in lateral aspect; tarsal formula 4-5-5; flabellum reduced; abdominal tergites II–III without anterior macroseta in most, III–VI impressed in basal region, VI about as long as VII; internal sac of median lobe of aedeagus well developed ( Fenyes 1920, Benick and Lohse 1974, Yosii and Sawada 1976, Seevers 1978).

Key to Korean species of the subgenus Microdota Mulsant & Rey